A friend of mine Marc Acardipane is working on a new album. He is moving from dance music into full on pop. To make the move he went on a serious shopping spree. Recently during a phone conversation he went on for an hour about a new Reverb unit he bought.

Most people would be fine with the built in software reverb that comes with your DAW. I often use Ableton Live’s built in Reverb. A quick tip for the Ableton Reverb is to click the “Quality” drop down menu and pick “High”. Most of the people I know also spend some cash and grab a Convolution Reverb plug-in like Altiverb. I have my Altiverb loaded with vintage hardware reverb Impulse Responses.

But what if you want the absolute best reverb? Lexicon possibly? Nah! Bricasti! According to my friend Marc he just sat there for hours listening to vocals through the Bricasti Model 7 in total awe. I trust Marc as he owns every software and hardware Reverb there is. The specs are basic but this unit is all about sound quality:

Pretty pricey, but no match (costwise) for the Sony DRE-S777. I can hardly find any info on it now, but these things were hardware sampling convolution reverb units with a mahogany finish and went for north of $10K back in the day (circa 2001 or so).

Looks pretty nice. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Quantec Yardstick too. It’s comparable in price to the Bricasti http://www.quantec.de/

I’m not too sure how those two would compare to the TC Electronic M6000 or Lexicon 960L. I use the M6000 and it really is incredible. When manufacturers claim “Revolutionary” new features I get skeptical. The Sony DRE was pretty sweet but I’ve read there were not too many impulse responses for it.